Airway remodeling from bench to bedside: Current perspectives

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-85

  Slade, David J ^a   Kraft, Monica ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; EXTRACELLULAR GROWTH FACTOR; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HYALURONIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 9; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MUCIN 2; MUCIN 4; MUCIN 5AC; PROTEOGLYCAN; STEROID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; ATOPY; BASOPHIL; CELL HYPERPLASIA; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERANCE; EOSINOPHIL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GOBLET CELL; HEALTH CARE COST; HELPER CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG FUNCTION; MAST CELL; MONOCYTE; MUCOUS CELL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM;

ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL SPASM; HUMANS; LUNG; RESPIRATORY MUCOSA;

EID: 33644928417     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2005.11.001     Document Type: Review

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